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Re:A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engine... by sp332 on Thursday December 24, 2015 @03:06PM (#10789435)
Google's spellchecker has been watching billions of people correct their own typos keystroke-by-keystroke for years. It runs on a global network of computers with untold hoards of RAM and disk arrays with indefinite IOPS. Your OSx spellchecker gets updated... occasionally, and it runs on your Mac.
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Re:A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engine... by true_religion on Thursday December 24, 2015 @05:47PM (#10789825)
> It runs on a global network of computers with untold hoards of RAM and disk arrays with indefinite IOPS.

Much of that is just to provide automatic spell checking to millions of people concurrently.

I would doubt the actual spell checking software for a single language, excluding proper names, would be something a Mac can't run.

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Re:A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engine... by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday December 24, 2015 @06:01PM (#10789851)
Makes me think that the equivalent of this '30 years ago' story with today's present as the past will be "they used to carry out complex operations on their OWN computers? Oh, they had non-instant network speeds, that explains it..."
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